Stoutenburgh v. Hennick
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. was convicted in the Police Court of the District of Columbia, upon an information stating that he, in April, 1887, “ did engage in the business of a commercial agent, to wit, the business of offering for sale, as agent of Lyons, Conklin & Co., a firm doing business in the city of Baltimore, State of Maryland, certain goods, wares, and merchandise by sample, catalogue, and otherwise, without having first obtained a…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. was convicted in the Police Court of the District of Columbia, upon an information stating that he, in April, 1887, “ did engage in the business of a commercial agent, to wit, the business of offering for sale, as agent of Lyons, Conklin & Co., a firm doing business in the city of Baltimore, State of Maryland, certain goods, wares, and merchandise by sample, catalogue, and otherwise, without having first obtained a license to do so, contrary to and in violation of an act of the late Legislative Assembly of • the District of Columbia,…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Chief Justioe Fullee,
after' stating-the case, delivered the opinion of the court:
It is a cardinal principle of our system of. government, that local affairs shall be managed by local authorities, and general affairs by the c'entral authority, and hence, while the r.ule is also fundamental that the power' to make laws cannot be delegated, the creation of municipalities exercising local self-government has never been held to trench upon that rule.Such legislation is not regarded, as a transfer of general- legislative power, but rather as the grant of the authority to prescribe local…
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